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Hockey team extends win streak to five
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Hockey teams extends
win streak to five
Extras
MARQUETTE, Mich. — The Miami RedHawks extended their season-high winning streak to five games with a 4-1 win Friday over Northern Michigan.
Ryan Jones scored his sixth goal in the past three games for the game's first score, just 3:57 into the first period.
Nathan Davis then gave the RedHawks (23-10-4, 16-7-4 CCHA) a
2-0 lead as he beat a defender to the NMU net and shoveled a shot under the goaltender at 1:48 of the second period.
Moments after Northern Michigan cut the lead in half early in the third period, Miami's Alexandre Lacombe recorded his first career goal at the 10:20 mark on a backhander from the side of the goal.
MU's Jarod Palmer notched the final score of the game, his 11th goal of the season, late in the contest.
Goalie Jeff Zatkoff turned away 11-of-13 shots to earn a 13-4-3 record. The win clinches at least a third-place finish for Miami in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association this season.
The RedHawks will close out their regular season schedule with another game against NMU at
7:35 p.m. tonight.
Baseball rallies
to beat No. 22 Winthrop
ROCK HILL, S.C. — Dan Leonard's two-run double in the top of the ninth inning lifted Miami to a 6-5 win against No. 22 Winthrop in the season-opener for the RedHawks.
Leonard's double scored Brandon Hillier and Jeff Carroll and capped a three-run inning for Miami.
Bailey Pratt, who was making his RedHawk debut, retired Winthrop in order in the bottom of the ninth to earn the win. Pratt threw 2 2/3 innings of two-hit ball.
Leonard finished 2-for-5 with three RBIs, while Carroll also collected a pair of hits and scored twice.
Miami and Winthrop will play a doubleheader today at 1 p.m.
Miami 000 012 003 — 6 11 2
Winthrop 210 001 100 — 5 9 3
WP — Bailey Pratt (1-0); LP — Settle (1-1)
Ricard, Heaton win
MAC swimming titles
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Miami University junior Paul Ricard and sophomore Chris Heaton successfully defended their conference titles in the 500 freestyle and 1-meter dive, respectively, as the RedHawk men's swimming and diving team wrapped up the first day of competition Thursday at the 2007 Mid-American Conference Swimming and Diving Championships.
With 233.5 points, Miami stands second through six events and trails only Eastern Michigan, which tallied 328 points on the meet's first day.
Setting a new Miami and MAC conference meet and pool record in the 500 freestyle, Ricard clocked in with a first-place time of 4:21.54. The time also was an NCAA "B" cut, helped Ricard defend his MAC title in the 500 free and propelled him to a No. 13 national ranking in the event
Following in Ricard's footsteps as a repeat winner, Heaton won the 1-meter diving title for the second straight season, finishing with a top score of 338.20. The defending MAC Diver of the Year, Heaton broke his own meet record score of 333.50, which he set at last season's conference championship. The title-winning dive was Heaton's third in as many tries, as he has now won every MAC diving title (3 total) that he has competed for in the past two seasons.
— Staff reports
